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I took it out today, and the 2x handgun scope I'm using didn't give me enough magnification to see the target clearly at 100 yards. Still, I managed a 3.5" 20 shot group with it by holding my mouth just right, shooting Russian steel-cased polyformance rounds.
The target was a big black circle with a 2" orange dot in the middle. The crosshairs on the 2x scope would cover the orange dot completely, so when I saw no orange, I would touch off a round.
Kind of primitive, but it got me by for today.
The M1A embarrassed me, as I also had a custom 7mm-08 bolt gun along that I was breaking in with several different handloads, using a 4-16x42 Nikon Monarch scope, and the bolt gun beat the M1A - but just barely.
The 16 power scope and my carefully crafted handloads didn't give the bolt gun that much of an edge. Both guns are still being broken in, so hopefully I'll see both of them improve with a bit more use.
I have some better quality .308 rounds, but I forgot to bring them along this time.
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